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Ti Or-CCIT GTATICMAIT. Cdxau Crt-ca. Ccndor .Korea JT I" v. : t . I Ginger Rorers does the "Sara of Jenny" number in Paramount!! brilliant technicolor triumph, "JLady In tbe Dark," which is now at the Elsinore theatre. This is the first time in a long tim that the vivacious Ginger sines and dances on the screen. The music Is the same Kurt Well composition that delighted the atre audiences on Broadway for three years, plus a new song called "Suddenly It's- Sprint;.' Ginger Is co-starred with Say Milland, Warner Baxter and Jon nail. Companion feature Is fUncensored" with Erie Portman. 'Lady in Dark9 Is Film Version Of Moss Hart's Broadway Hit v Whatever you've heard about it is no exaggeration. "Lady in the Dark" is definitely one of the finest pieces of motion picture entertainment ever produced. It has everything imaginable to give film fans the time of their story, breathtaking beautiful tech nicolor, fay and haunting music, stunning fashions and high com edy. That Just about takes , in ev erything in the way of entertain ment elements, but thavs what audiences at the Elsinore theatre thought . - :. -. 1 o-starring Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Warner Baxter and Jon Hall and produced and directed by Mitchell Leisen, "Lady in the Dark is the picture version of the celebrated Moss Hart play that ran for three years on Broadway and played In countless cities around the country. , The play, with Ger trude Lawrence in the title role, was a sensation.- The picture goes even further. than the' play be cause, naturally, the screen offers wider scope 4r imaginative tech nical tricks than the stage, and Leisen has taken advantage of that fact y: I The story of "Lady in the Dark" revolves about the mental turmoil of Liza Elliott successful editor of a swanky fashion magazine. She can't make up her mind to marry Warner Baxter, to whom she's been attached for some time; she can't make up her mind regarding Important business matters, and in general she is miserable and un happy. She is prevailed upon to go to a psycho-analyst He probes into her past by means of analyz ing her dreams and in that way brings ' her to the ; realization of where her happiness lies. V This reviewer has no hesitation in going on record to say that he has never seen anything to com pare with the dream sequences of "Lady in the Dark." The imagina tion shown in. conceiving and pro ducing them will . win paens of praise for producer-director Lei sen and everyone concerned with the picture's making. Ginger Rog ers sings and dances through ; all of them and performs as a 12-year-old child and a 17-year-old girl. Her big song - and - dance number, "The Saga of Jenny" which is the high spot of the cir cus dream sequence, is something you'll be singing and remembering fora long time.'' -.i Mischa - Aiier, Phyllis Brooks, Mary Philips and Edward Field ing are among those who contrib ute excellent supporting perform- Z ICYCLI ! C IN D n I T ' . lives top stars, a "different" ances in a picture that is undoubt edly the cream film - fare of all time. - ' Columbia Industries Elect Lloyd Riches PORTLAND, July 15 -P)-Lloyd Riches, Salem, is the new vice president and Thomas C. Young, Portland business man, new president of Columbia Em pire Industries, Inc. Emphasis will be placed on greater war ' production, veteran placement peacetime production schedules, labor - management relation, legislation and public re cognition. OheJ strategic impor tance of industry in the Pacific northwest DOCS O N THE MARC HWar dors, iemg trained for the Army by the remount service of the quartermaster corps, go on a practice march with their handlers thrtarh the California , forest The dogs are said U enjoy the work. '.. Al I :Lt ti x rnu (Uft)Wai3iarajMs, P::0t of f tltu:f - izl . .1 . . 1 i . . T Power Plant Sales Allowed ale of two felectricj power plants serving Sun . Valley In Idaho from th West Coast Pow er company td the Idahj Power company for a consideration of 685,000 was authorized in an or der issued by Public Utilities Commissioner George H, Flagg here Saturday , j Two lines for serving the needs of Sun Valley j points were men tioned in the transaction. One ex tends from Richfield through Hailey t64Cetchum and the other from Cannett to Ketchumj. r The West Coast Power company is also concerned in the owner ship of the plant, which .supplies water for the juse of the town of Hailey and Flagg said it was un derstood that ! the holding com pany contemplates transferring ownership of the water system to that municipality, j t The latter deal has not yet been presented for approval I of the Oregon i public utilities commis sioner. s 1 Story of Army JVomen Flier h told in 'Ladies Courageous9 ; ; Packing it tremendous emotional punch and teljirig the thrill ing story of America's! anay women flyers, falter Wanger's "La dies dourageouswith aii aU-stajr. cast'heid by Lorctta. Young and Geraldihe Fitzgerald, opened yesterday at the Grand theatre. ' The S production brings to the public Jfor the. jfirs time air force scenes -ox women iiyers m lacuon. Most of the scenes were filmed at a US air force base said to be one of the busiest! a I r p o jr t s i in the world. .. i . ,v: j Ladies CouJ-ageousl tells the story of the WFS womenfs aux iliary ferrying! squadron a civil- iian unit of the US army,! which was organized! in 1942 with 25 of the nation's foremost young wom en fly rs in he original j group. Recently, the WAFS were taerged with other i army - wotien'a units and today ard k n own as the WASPS Women's Airforce Serv ice PUots.- :f-ih -II ! Film RealLstic ' ' f I WithJ such n authentic! back ground, Screen Writers Norman Reilly Raine Jand Dcjris; iGUbert: were able to j write a powerful story, deplete With romantic. twists, realistic and cqnvmcing.it ; jf Actually, the5 personal stories of three beautiful young women caught in the freb of jvar jare in geniously threaded info the well paced plot of j "Ladies Courage ous," revealingf an intimate picture of th emotiqnal conflicts . with: which leach of Ithe girls finds her self beset ::::. :-;..?, I Miss): Young, las executive officer; of the WAFsj has a role which calls upon her to play ithe modern young J woman of purpose and common sense, but j withal she manages to leaf e her Welcome im pression as an exquidtelyj lovely and wholly feminine personality. Miss Fitzgerald delivers ja truly remarkable performance as Miss Young's emotionally unstable sis ter, whose selfishness and reckless flying escapades very fneai result In the : dissolution of the WAFS. I Anne Gwymie. Diana Bar rv- more, Evelyn Ankers4 June Vin cent Lois Collier, Phillifl Terry and Richard Fraser haVe the orin- cipal supportini roles in an excel lent cast which also includes Da vid Bruce, " Frank Jenksi Janet Shaw and Kanf Richmond John RawlinJ directed and cin ematography bears the superior label of Hal Mohr, ASC. L -I 4 Joint Merit Sy steins Held. Unauthorized , I I f i Establishment of a i joint merit system council; by the state wel fare commission, state board of healthf and state unemployment compensation commission, instead of separate merit systems; is not authorized by law, Attorney Gen-i eral George Neuner! held here Saturday. i - I i Neuner declared, however, that he could see n legal! reason why each of the respective commis sions land board should hot ac cept the personhel of fuch;a merit system which jcould function for; the - ttiree agencies. : I J The questioti was referred to Neuner in connection; with a re-i commendation bf an ihterim comJ mftteel of the. lp43 legislature thai the three departmenta operate in a join! merit system and ; thereby reduce the operating costi. j j The cost of operating the merit systems, under Neuner's J suggest xion, wouia oe prorated among tne three activities. r Storage water srarage conditions throughout the state, while hot at satisfactory ks a year ago, are more I encouraging than antid-j pated earlier in the keasqn. State Engineer C. ; E. SMcklin. deUi dared here Saturday". j J: Water in 19 storage reservoirs;! as of June l.'was fixed by Stride lin a 1,735,347 1 ace feet The reservoirs and storag: ( ; ! 4 j Agency Valley reservbiri 48, 692 are feet, fcranef Prairie res ervoir! 37,734 acre fet Crescent Lake f reservoir 48,902 acre feet! Grant Gap reBervoir C277 f eet Fish Lake reiervoi)r 7132 feet,! Four-Mile Lake reservoir : 17 X 18 feet Garberrefcervofr 46,860 feet uear , Lake -resenroir. ! 276.36a feet Klamath Lake reservoir 370, J 000 feet I :. ! I Hyatt - Prairie reservoir 8538 feet ! McKay ( reservoir . 55,160 feet Ochoco reservoir 18,830 feeti Owyhee reseryoir 1589,430 feet Umtyl reservoir 15.S00 feet Wal Iowa reservoir ( 35,649 feet Warm Widcnip reservoir J 17,843 feet Willor 'Creekf reservoir 10.478 feet land Thief Valley reservoif Continuoni from t Pi M. - 5 -t---ru0io-i ) Post Ordnance Streamlined" At Camp Adair CAMP ADAIR. Ore., July Post ordnance, the backbone of all combat units at Camp Adair, has successfully f taken its place as a supply base for vital , ordnance maienei nere. . ... UlVUUlUVCj U1G tUUOl lllmj nical branch in the army,; includes all kinds of; small arms and ar tillery,' ammunition and all I ve hides that the army uses, as well as all the parts to repair, them. Every man in ordnance must be a technician along these lines be fore he becomes of any real value to the organization. . : ' ( T .VVi . Post ordnance as Camp Adair has seen to j the outfitting of four divisions as well '. as many small outfits that have been on the post from time y time. There was a time when ost ordnance contain ed about 42 EM and over 50 ci vilians to nian three warehouses; but it has all been streamlined now and according to Major H. G. Kautz, ordnance officer, tne job is being: done just the same. - Post ordnance has had probab ly one of Jthe hardest ' working crews of men on the post and even now work details shudder when they ..hear the name . "ordnance" mentioned. 1 :- -; TSgt Ri - A. . Glelssner, cnlei derk, as well as many other men and women! who have been with the organization a long time, recall many days jthat the boys worked 16 to 18 hours witn only time out for a bite of food, and even days when a deadline called for 24 to 30 hours Without sleep. There Were nights! when the boys were called out at 2 pjn. to issue a mil lion rounds; of ammunition and carried on 'through a full day's work at receiving and issuing to two divisions. Traffic Death Rate Constant i Oregon's traffic death rate for the first five months of 1944 was eight persons killed per 100,000, 000 miles of travel or exactly the same as for the same period of 1943 Secretary of State Robert S. ' FarrelL j jr, announced here Saturday. . : ','.1 I '- ' I , Travel hv Oregon, as shown by gasoline consumption, was slight ly higher for the first five months of 1944 When compared with 1943. Mileage this year totaled 981,619,509 miles, an increase of four per cent over the total of 938,005,705 miles for the first five months of 1943. The death rate for May this year was eight persons killed per 100,000,000 miles of travel. Sample Analysis . To Fixj Hop Ceiling The price; ceiling for hops this year, probably will be based f on factors of leaf, stem and seed con tent to bje determined by official samples and analysis, state agri cultural department officials de clared here Saturday. . In Oregon these will be made by the state agricultural depart ment under: a cooperative agree ment with the grain products branch, office of distribution, war food administration. , A school for those who will have charge1 of offidal sampling and analytical service in the, states of Oregon, Washington and California was held at Oregon State college three days last week. Crescent! Family Visit : In Jefferson District JFJTERSON Mr.fand Mrs. Eckles McCaw of Crescent are visiting Mr; ; and Mrs. Leonard McCaw and family. , Frank LUlard, former resident of this community, now. of Philo math, is visiting at the William Skelton and 'Gilbert Zimmerman homes for several days. G AY COMEDY I j ROSALIND IIOSSELL i i II' Ce-Cit! Thrills with the Circus! .. .Ilenry Dorothy .FONDA LAMOUR 4 In Technicolor As trim and fit as they look are (From L) Jane Vincent Lorietta Young, Anne Gwynne; and Evelyn An kers, appearing in Universal "Ladies Courageous." Miss Young Is starred.' Nowat the Grand. - Tioga Hall Building Is Gone, But Oldtimers Cherish Memory By CAREYri MARTIN y. On the old two -story jrick building that stood where the First National bank now stands the sign on the upstairs window facing State street was plainly visible up and down the street and read: "Brown, Wrightzrian and Myers, Attbrneys-at-Law.", The present chain-store block diagonally northeast was 'China Town. Brown was a good laWyer and looked after the law business of the firm, while Wrightmanjand Myers gave more attention to pol itics and business enterprises.! y Our much respected and' almost life-long friend, Frank T. Wright man, had already served as sheriff of Marion county and had a per sonal acquaintance with almost every man in the county, and Jef ferson Myers was a good 'mijter with the public He bought the land and platted J. Myers add tion to Salem east of the railway depot These three men made a good combination, but neither Wright- man nor Myers liked the law bus iness and the firm dissolved. "Jeff Myers, as wo called him, has recently "passed on at; the ripe age of 80 years, after filling important offices in our national government . .". , J . The old brick building once had a private banJc aownstairs, ana a dance hall In the back part up stairs known as "Tioga Hair where Warner Breyman, ancestor of one branch of that family, pro- moted the "Old Folks Dancing dub" and appointed the writer a member of the club to be offidal "caller," principally to announce the changes in the Lancers and su pervise the Virginia reel, favorite dances of the active old pioneer. If his descendants could only' have a movie reel of the old gen tleman skipping oyer we floor hi the Virginia reel jit would be a prize possession, trie lived in a large house where the Elks temple now stands, and was one oi tne owners of Salem's principal mer cantile store, the bid "White Cor ner" at r North Commercial and Court streets. ; -: That old Tioga HaU building brings back memories. For one thing the - first bank failed j and most' of us had money in it The attorneys office rooms on the Sec ond floor had formerly beem the justice court rooms. .! When, in- the middle nineties, a thief had stolen the writer's new style, low-wheeled bicycle; (cost ing $107.50) the sheriff of Marion county deputized and furnished a six-shooter to the writer to hunt for the thief. After an all days horseback ride through the jhop yards of Polk county, the thief j was found, arrested, , brought . across the county line and delivered into that old justice court When ques tioned by the old "J. P." and re quired to give his correct name, he answered promptly, "Jesse James," and he went to jail bear ing that name. ' The writer had a queer feeling rJ MlnlM Continuous from 1 F. M. 4 BRIAN .ADEDIIE when that name was called out In the courtroom in old Tioga building. This fellow, was about the right size and build and act ually resembled the pictures of the original outlaw. c j He and six other petty criminals awaiting trial, dug a hole through the north basement wall of the courthouse jail and ran away, Sheriff John Knight made no ef fort to . catch them, saying The county was best rid of the ras cals." : . ' . O -'"IO . imcs Schedule Set Clinics scheduled for the Marlon County Health department will be held in the offices this week. On Monday there will be a milk and food. handlers' clinic froni 1:30 to 3 pjn. On Wednesday from 10 to 11 a school clinic will be held and on Thursday at the same time, an infant clinic is scheduled Satur day, immunization and vaccina tions will be given as usual from 9 to 11:30 am .... The. schedule for the ment also includes the depart- mothers' class at the YWCA at 2:30 when supplies for mpother and infant will be discussed. I. ' : Silverton Chief Plans For Working Birthday 5 SILVERTON A. M. Amo, sil verton's .'chief of police. Will ob serve bis 70th birthday Anniver sary Sunday. The day, j will be spent, as all other days, on duty, he said. - " -' " V - NOW snowiNG! News Scoop! " ! " CAPTURE OF CHEKBOURG! r-Tcday Sensational Expose! Here but for the Grace ef God Is Year Daughter! "Giris ci lia T"i" Ann Dvorak Lola Lane Co-Feature; " Rochelle Hudson " ' Brace Cabot "Giib ' Unicr 21 Hungry for Dates, Gay Clothes Any thing but School! county Lit 1 Co J : ' Tcdinkolor K Wttl tIBCIS Tt 1 X W KtUKl Continuoas from 1 P. M. 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